Jan Burzlaff

Jan Burzlaff

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Jan Burzlaff is the William A. Ackman Fellow for Holocaust Studies at Harvard University. A former fellow at the École Normale Superieure, Paris, and the 2016–17 Jane Eliza Procter Fellow at Princeton University, Burzlaff entered the History Ph.D. program in Fall 2017. His most recent publications include ‘Icons, Trodden Sand, and the Violence of the Gaze: Looking at the Holocaust’, Yad Vashem Studies (forthcoming, 2021), 'When The Fires Were Lit: Anti-Jewish Violence in Eastern Europe, 1917-1945', Journal of Contemporary History (July 2020), and ’Confronting the Communal Grave: A Reassessment of Social Relations During the Holocaust in Eastern Europe’, The Historical Journal (September 2020). Burzlaff's dissertation is a transnational history of Jewish survival during the Holocaust, with additional interests in interdisciplinary dialogues with the social sciences, visual and spatial histories, comparative genocide, social histories of violence, and politics during the 20th century.
 

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